Evolution is not predictable, right? It has famously been said that if we were to rerun the tape of life, it would be very unlikely that som...

According to Science Left Behind ( book review ), there's a war on science, and it isn't raged by conservatives alone. Progressiv...

I like public speaking, and would like to be better at it. Two rules I have been living by are: Love the words that you speak Always have...

On EvolDir there is this job-posting: *The lab of "Biometry and Evolutionary Biology" UMR CNRS 5558, (***University of ******...

Can you spot the odd one out in today's list of titles in evolutionary biology? The category is open, though. For example, the journal E...

I get quite a few anonymous comments to random posts. They are random in that there is no apparent correlation between the content of my pos...

PZ Myers has a post on the evolutionary origins of complexity: αEP: Complexity is not usually the product of selection I find it frustrati...

For those unawares (prolly all), I post these titles in evolution i) as a reminder to myself when I skim the numerous eTOCs that I get in my...

54th edition is up at ideonexus.com: Carnival of Evolution #54: A Walkabout Mount Improbable . And it's a super-fancy one, so don'...

There are simply too many interesting papers published in evolutionary biology to keep up with. Not even just reading the abstracts is feasi...

I'm an evolutionary and computational biologist doing my second postdoc at Michigan State University. I have learned all sorts of thing ...

I seriously have trouble believing this. Can anybody shed some light? It's from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Wikipedia on...

What is the origin of new genes? In order to do new stuff, new genes are needed. Where do they come from, then? Horizontal gene transfer (...

David Morrison just hosted Carnival f Evolution #52 , and now he has written a post with lots of statistics of CoE: The network history of t...

Here we go again with the new articles on evolution. This is just a very small sample that I chose out of interest from the last couple of ...

Yesterday I went to the annual Thomas S Whittam Memorial Lecture here at MSU. Howard Ochman talked about "Evolutionary Forces Affecti...

I'm reading a book chapter by Peter Stadler from 2002 called Landscapes and Effective Fitness [1]. It has this absolutely gorgeous figur...

Bjørn's two rules of being a good speaker: Love the words that you speak Always have something to say An engaged speaker is more en...

[The following is a post written for BEACON .] What is epistasis? Epistasis is a measure of the strength of epistatic interactions. Epist...

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